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An extraordinary exploration of the extracellular environment
Posted by the Node, on 4 September 2026
Editorial from Development’s latest Special Issue – The Extracellular Environment in Development, Regeneration and Stem Cells, edited by Alex Hughes and Rashmi Priya.Embryogenesis: an experiment that went too well
Posted by Ian Velloso Randolph, on 4 September 2026
How is it possible that cnidarians evolved so many different ways to acomplish the same thing? Unipolar and multipolar ingression, invagination, delamination, epiboly… All the paths lead to ‘planula’ – …The final stretch that tests every PhD Student
Posted by Cherene de Bruyn, on 4 September 2026
The recent deluge of Substack and Medium articles, promising strategies and frameworks to work effectively and to complete tasks with intentionality, would have some to believe that the ‘P’ in PhD stands for “productivity” and not Philosophy. As if these neatly …How to use Git/GitHub like a Pro?
Posted by Anjaney Pandey, on 3 September 2026
If you have ever tried to set up Git and GitHub, you have probably run into a wall of cryptic errors. I certainly did when I was setting it up …ULT1 and me
Posted by Vangeli Geshkovski, on 3 September 2026
How I started working on ULTRAPETALA1, the subject of a recent paper revealing how it influences plant development.Bytes don’t lie: How a hidden space broke my single-cell pipeline
Posted by Anjaney Pandey, on 3 September 2026
If you are a bioinformatician, you have probably come across this situation. You’re deep into a single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, preparing your object for downstream analysis. All that’s left is …The Experiments We Never Run
Posted by Alyssa Paparella, on 1 September 2026
Somewhere, there’s a paper that will not get written. Before there’s a scientific paper, someone has to be there to ask the right question, design the right experiment, watch it …Patterned Reality: The Common Pursuit of Science and Art
Posted by the Node, on 1 September 2026
Friedrich Bliem writes about how patterns function as an epistemic bridge between scientific, cognitive and artistic processes.From killing cells to shaping them: enigma of Caspase-3 beyond apoptosis
Posted by Saurabh chand Sagar, on 1 September 2026
Small historic background: In an era when caspases are known as killer proteins, Drosophila Malpighian tubules state otherwise. Drosophila is a holometabolous insect, meaning that it goes through three life …Show and Tell: Start Exploring Single-cell Data
Posted by Julia Ibe, on 31 August 2026
Bioinformatics can seem intimidating, especially when you’re just starting out. But you don’t need to be an expert to begin exploring single-cell RNA-seq data. In this short tutorial, I walk …Subscribe to our mailing list
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